Alone
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4.5 • 55 Ratings
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Publisher Description
A New York Times bestseller!
Perfect for fans of Hatchet and the I Survived series, this harrowing middle grade debut novel in verse from a Pushcart Prize–nominated poet tells the story of a young girl who wakes up one day to find herself utterly alone in her small Colorado town.
When twelve-year-old Maddie hatches a scheme for a secret sleepover with her two best friends, she ends up waking up to a nightmare. She’s alone—left behind in a town that has been mysteriously evacuated and abandoned.
With no one to rely on, no power, and no working phone lines or internet access, Maddie slowly learns to survive on her own. Her only companions are a Rottweiler named George and all the books she can read. After a rough start, Maddie learns to trust her own ingenuity and invents clever ways to survive in a place that has been deserted and forgotten.
As months pass, she escapes natural disasters, looters, and wild animals. But Maddie’s most formidable enemy is the crushing loneliness she faces every day. Can Maddie’s stubborn will to survive carry her through the most frightening experience of her life?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Poet Freeman makes her middle grade debut with this engaging survival story in verse based on Island of the Blue Dolphins. When 12-year-old Maddie's plans for a secret sleepover fall through, she decides to stay at her grandparents' empty summer apartment solo, having already lied to her divorced parents about her whereabouts. An unexpected middle-of-the-night evacuation leaves Maddie completely alone in her small Colorado town, without power, information, or any way to communicate with loved ones. With only the neighbor's rottweiler as a companion, Maddie spends the next three years surviving on her own gathering food from abandoned stores, navigating ever-changing and sometimes dangerous weather, and hiding from looters and wild dogs. Most of all, she must overcome the unending loneliness and uncertainty that each day brings. The lengths to which resourceful Maddie must go in order to survive feel realistic, and Freeman's well-paced verse magnifies significant and harrowing moments. The explanation of the "imminent danger" that left Maddie alone is vague and hasty, however after readers follow a worthy protagonist through three years of solitude and despair, the abrupt resolution disappoints. Ages 10 up.
Customer Reviews
From Peyton
I love this book I am so excited to keep reading it.i have this book
Alone the review
This is the BEST BOOK EVER!!! I liked George( the Rottweiler) and the big question; Will the challenges hurt her or will the complete and utterly ALONE hurt most. I loved the emotion aspects like that happened to you. P.S LOVED your book make more!!!
Good but sad story
I read this book at home when my mother got it for me and I brought it and read it at school. The book was really good but kinda sad since she was alone in the town by herself. My friends have also read this book and said it was sad but good: and they were right! I loved this book so much and it has a happy ending, too.